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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Karakawe claim to be looking for when he is caught going through Omayra Torres' luggage?

2. What is the greatest danger in rock climbing?

3. What is Nadia's advice about mosquitoes?

4. What do Alex and Nadia do for the first time in public when they enter the Indian village?

5. What does Alex discover for the first time that he likes to eat?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the efforts of the expedition to lure the Indians with gifts and trinkets fail?

2. What do the People of the Mist look like?

3. Why are the travelers unable to move after their boat disappears?

4. What causes the kidnappers to become angry with Nadia and how is the problem resolved?

5. Who are the People of the Mist?

6. How does Ludovic Leblanc estimate the size of the Indian villages?

7. What does Nadia learn when she is the first to glimpse the Beast?

8. How does Omayra Torres plan to persuade the Indians to accept vaccinations?

9. How are Alex's mother and Nadia's mother alike?

10. What response do Nadia and Alex get when they warn adults about the conspiracy to eradicate the Amazon Indians?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What do Father Valdomero and Cesar Santos believe about the conversion of the Amazon Indians to Christianity? What brought them to these opinions?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss fear as a theme in this story. Explain the advice on overcoming fear Alex receives from Kate and from Nadia, and the advice he remembers from his father and offers to Nadia when she faces her own fear. Which characters are governed by fears? Which are not?

Essay Topic 3

Explain why and how Alex's flute is important in this story. Include answers to questions such as: What does the flute represent? What does it do for Alex as the story progresses? What does it do for others?

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